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This chapter offers a critical look at teaching—my teaching. It traces some of the valuable lessons I’ve learned during the first three years of designing, preparing, and teaching a new course in a new field. It also captures a dramatic shift in my thinking about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, teachers, and parents, and the appearance of a series of new questions that have emerged for me through the teaching of this course.
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Rofes, E. (2004). Martyr-Target-Victim. In: Rasmussen, M.L., Rofes, E., Talburt, S. (eds) Youth and Sexualities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403981912_3
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